Bios: FRANK A. BLACKSTONE: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    FRANK A. BLACKSTONE,
    
    [p. 447] a very successful and able attorney-at-law of New Castle, Lawrence
  County, is a son of Samuel Blackstone, grandson of James Blackstone, and
  great- grandson of Samuel Blackstone, Sr., who lived just north of New
  Wilmington in Mercer Co., Pa. James Blackstone, one of four sons born to
  Samuel Blackstone, Sr., was born in Mercer County, and early in life moved to
  Greenfield, where he lived, engaged in agricultural pursuits, the remainder of
  his life, dying at the age of eighty. His life-companion, Nancy Waugh, lived
  to be over eighty years old and bore him the following children: Thomas H.;
  Samuel, our subject's father; John; and Hannah (Zahnizer).
    
    Our subject's father was born near Greenfield, Mercer Co., Pa., in 1826. He
  located on a farm near the Blackstone homestead, and lived there all his life,
  dying Sept. 16, 1881. He married Susanna Keiffer, who was a native of
  Northampton Co., Pa.; she was taken to her long home in 1893 at the age of
  sixty-six years. Their religious principles and rules of life were those
  advocated by the Presbyterian Church. Three children were born to them, as
  follows: Frank A.; Nannie L.; and J. Norman.
    
    Frank A. Blackstone was born in Mercer County, Sept. 15, 1853. His common
  school education was obtained in the district schools, and he was advanced at
  the State Normal and at Westminster College, graduating from the latter
  institution in the class of 1881. The expenses of his college education was
  partly borne by the salary he received from teaching eight terms of school in
  the vicinity of his home. He studied law under Col. O. L. Jackson, and was
  admitted to the bar of Lawrence County in 1883. He remained in the Colonel's
  office about five years, while that gentleman was in Congress, and in 1888 he
  opened an office for himself in the Clendennin Block, later moved to the Woods
  Block in 1890, and in 1891 came to his present location at No. 72 Pittsburg
  Street. Politically he is a Democrat. He was admitted to practice in the
  Supreme Court of the Western District in 1885; he was admitted to the bar of
  Mercer County in 1888; to the bar of Allegheny County, in 1893; and to the
  bar of the Courts of the Interior in 1890.